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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marauder" data-source="post: 466007" data-attributes="member: 1220">It's only too low if a DM insists on adding 10d10 heat damage in addition to the bite damage should that attack hit. I don't think that this is the intent.Furthermore, an attended item (eg a magic weapon used to strike the creature) gets a Fort save using either it's own or the user's modifier. A 7th level Fighter has a +5 base Fort save, requiring a 13 or better to succeed. A standard fighter has probably got +8 or more due to Con and other modifiers, so this translates into a better than 50% likelihood that the weapon is not destroyed (if it is magical - only magic weapons get a save).Then it's more of a CR 7 creature.Unless - as has been mentioned - it ambushes, in which case you should probably use the EL instead of the CR (which would be 9 for an ambush I would think, which corresponds to an encounter twice as difficult as it would have been if it was a straight-up fight).</blockquote>